Tarantulady
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"Halloween Fiddler" ID/care?
Please read through. I edited and the question changed. Wasn't sure if should do that here or a new thread, so editing here to save clutter.
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My boyfriend was at our LFS and they'd just received a mysterious shipment of tiny crabs. They'd been shipped as "strawberry crabs", which they very obviously are not. He picked one up for me. There are more of them available, and I'd like to get a group going in my 10 or 65, but we don't have an ID and the LFS is completely stumped.
He is small enough to sit squarely on a quarter (coin). The eyes make me think of fiddler crabs, but the LFS said they've been in the store for 1 week without land, no deaths. None of them had "fiddler" arms, either. His back is orange and his legs are blue (almost black) with white on them. His eyestalks are cream/off-white. Notice the two "fang" markings on the front?
He'll reside in my 10, with my arrowhead crab for the time being. If he's semi-aquatic I'd like to know, so I can set him up with something appropriate. I normally wouldn't buy mystery animals, but we've never seen anything like this and we couldn't miss out!
Photos incoming, please let me know what you guys think?
Edit: here are photos. He's still acclimating so photos are bad.
Ok, seems they are likely an immature male and two female Fiddlers of some sort. We've moved them to a mostly-sand critter keeper with the water they acclimated to (from my ten). We were thinking of putting them in my spare ten, which was only growing extra aiptasia for my little berghia side-project. How does this sound, invert people?... A 10g with "cycled" sand, small heater, airstone. I was going to use the same water I make for my other tanks, then add a little dirty from my tanks from time to time, so they have gross stuff to eat. Any pointers would be SO welcome. Let me know if this setup sounds awful.
I don't want to return them to the LFS since I guess they would drown.
Please read through. I edited and the question changed. Wasn't sure if should do that here or a new thread, so editing here to save clutter.
Original post:
My boyfriend was at our LFS and they'd just received a mysterious shipment of tiny crabs. They'd been shipped as "strawberry crabs", which they very obviously are not. He picked one up for me. There are more of them available, and I'd like to get a group going in my 10 or 65, but we don't have an ID and the LFS is completely stumped.
He is small enough to sit squarely on a quarter (coin). The eyes make me think of fiddler crabs, but the LFS said they've been in the store for 1 week without land, no deaths. None of them had "fiddler" arms, either. His back is orange and his legs are blue (almost black) with white on them. His eyestalks are cream/off-white. Notice the two "fang" markings on the front?
He'll reside in my 10, with my arrowhead crab for the time being. If he's semi-aquatic I'd like to know, so I can set him up with something appropriate. I normally wouldn't buy mystery animals, but we've never seen anything like this and we couldn't miss out!
Photos incoming, please let me know what you guys think?
Edit: here are photos. He's still acclimating so photos are bad.
Ok, seems they are likely an immature male and two female Fiddlers of some sort. We've moved them to a mostly-sand critter keeper with the water they acclimated to (from my ten). We were thinking of putting them in my spare ten, which was only growing extra aiptasia for my little berghia side-project. How does this sound, invert people?... A 10g with "cycled" sand, small heater, airstone. I was going to use the same water I make for my other tanks, then add a little dirty from my tanks from time to time, so they have gross stuff to eat. Any pointers would be SO welcome. Let me know if this setup sounds awful.
I don't want to return them to the LFS since I guess they would drown.
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